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Seidman’s simple thesis is that in this transparent world “how” you live your life and “how” you conduct your business matters more than ever. “The persistence of memory in electronic form makes 2nd chances harder to come by,” writes Seidman. “In the information age, life has no chapters or closets; you can leave nothing behind & you have nowhere to hide your skeletons. Your past is your present. -
1voteIn two posts on Britannica Blog, Mr. Gorman, fmr pred of American Library Association, has launched a broadside against all of “Web 2.0,” a term applied to a range of Web sites that encourage interaction and collaborative work. “The life of the mind in the age of Web 2.0 suffers,” he writes, “from an increase in credulity and an associated flight from expertise.”
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1voteWhat I lay out in this essay is rather disconcerting. Hegemonic American teens (i.e. middle/upper class, college bound teens from upwards mobile or well off families) are all on or switching to Facebook. Marginalized teens, teens from poorer or less educated backgrounds, subculturally-identified teens, and other non-hegemonic teens continue to be drawn to MySpace.
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1voteA series of interviews with very smart people on topics in David Weinberger's book, Everything is Miscellaneous. Interviews with: Cory Doctorow, Markos "DailyKos" Zuniga, Arianna Huffington, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Jimmy Wales, Craig "sList" Newmark, Paul "Kayak" English, Richard Sambrook
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1voteA 5-minute interview with Andrew Keen, the author of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture. Keen provides an interesting counter-argument to Jenkins' and others' optimism about the wisdom of the collective, saying that he prefers instead the "wisdom of the professional." He says "Once we undermine the authority and expertise and professional
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1voteThe latest generation of Web sites make a virtue of openness at the expense of traditional notions of privacy.Mena Trott, who developed Movable Type, a software system for publishing blogs, says "control" is a better word than "privacy" for defining oneself in different situations on the Web.
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1voteThe unexamined life, said Socrates, is not worth living. For a new generation of Americans and more, the unexposed life is not worth living. Digital diaries, online posts, life loggers and bloggers and Facebook and bed cams are increasingly making the very idea of a "private life" sound antique, retro, pointless.
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2voteToday, it's pretty obvious that having the HR guy at your prospective employer find photos of college beer bongs isn't a good idea. But that Before Net guy running HR isn't going to be in his job forever. Before too long he'll give way to an After Netter with an old MySpace page of her own out there for anyone to find. Will she conclude drunken snapshots are a sign of bad judgment and hire someone else? I very much doubt it.
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